“I was first sentenced to a two year jail term for a road traffic offence in 2010. I unsuccessfully attempted securing employment upon discharge around Christmas in 2011 as most transport owners were reluctant to employ an ex-convict as driver. I joined some other ex-convicts to rob a businessman in Accra as I had to provide money for the upkeep of my wife and two children. Unfortunately for us, we were arrested and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment each, for robbery”. This is an account from a reoffender in one of Ghana’s prisons.